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Colorado still had the nation’s lowest prevalence of obesity last year, at 18.7 percent, but its rate climbed from 17.4 percent two years earlier, researchers said Thursday.
Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia were the only states where obesity was less prevalent last year than in 2005, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults who reported being obese in 2007 rose to a record 25.6 percent — about 54 million people. That’s 1.7 percent higher than two years earlier, the researchers said. The agency estimates actual obesity at 34 percent of the population. CDC officials said the 2010 target to reduce obesity to 15 percent of U.S. adults might be elusive.
